Category: Gettysburg Address

Book Recommender: ‘Old Abe” Unveils What You Don’t Know About Abraham Lincoln

July 7, 2022
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In all the commemorative and even demonizing books written about 16th president Abraham Lincoln since his assassination 157 years ago, none show us his towering, 6-foot-4-inch frame squatting. But John Cribb’s 2020 novel, “Old Abe,” opens with, “He squatted, … whittling on a pine stick.” It is a picture of an average American man passing…

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Abraham Lincoln Bust, Gettysburg Address Plaque Removed From Cornell University Library ‘After Complaint’

June 30, 2022
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A bust of President Abraham Lincoln and a plaque of the Gettysburg Address have been removed from a Cornell University Library following a complaint, according to reports. Randy Wayne, a professor of biology at Cornell, said the library had removed the display, after “someone complained,” according to the higher education news website, College Fix.  The bust of Lincoln…

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